60 Anthropological Investigations. 



The average weight, unlike the height, is greater in the white chil- 

 dren at all ages up to puberty; beyond puberty, particularly in the 

 girls, the colored subjects seem to gain in weight more rapidly than 

 do the white ones. 



The size of the head is, on the average, slightly smaller in the 

 negro children than it is in the white, provided we consider the size 

 of the head in its relation to the size of the body. There are indi- 

 vidual exceptions to this rule. 



The form of the head is less variable in the colored children than 

 it is in the American-born white children. A pure American colored 

 child shows generally a pronounced dolichocephaly, whilst the nor- 

 mal white American child will show us everything from a marked 

 long head to a pronounced brachycephaly. West Indies negro 

 children are more frequently short-headed than those of North 

 American origin. 



The hair of the pure negro child is quite lusterless and as a rule 

 either curly or wavy, by far more frequently the former than the lat- 

 ter. The proportion of wavy hair increases largely in mixed sub- 

 jects and the same is true about luster of the hair. In white chil- 

 dren, those of American origin especially, curly hair is found very 

 seldom, and the curls always differ from those of the negro; they 

 possess luster and will never show compact rouleaux arrangement. 

 We do find curly hair among Jewish children and children born in 

 southern European countries, and occasionally also among Teutonic 

 people. Wavy hair is quite common among Jewish and Syrian 

 subjects. 



The forehead is on the average narrower at all ages in the negro 

 child than it is in the white. The height of the forehead, however, 

 is not smaller in the colored subject, and is occasionally even greater 

 than it is in some of the white children. 



The face of the colored children is generally more prognathic than 

 is that of white children. The prognathism is both facial and 

 alveolar. 



The malar bones are somewhat more prominent in the colored 

 child, but the difference is not so great as that which may be ob- 

 served between a child of a yellow race and a white one. 



The nose of the negro is frequently shorter and generally lower 



